1970s, group 6 The American Friend (1977) The Sugarland Express (1974) Klute (1971) Unholy Rollers (1972) Straight Time (1978) White Lightning (1973) The Hospital (1971) Mr. Majestyk (1974) The Hot Rock (1972) Chinatown (1974) Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) Dog Day Afternoon (1975) Bad Company (1972) Rancho Deluxe (1975) Silver Streak (1976) Farewell, My Lovely (1975) Coming Home (1978) Bound for Glory (1976) North Dallas Forty (1979) The Man Who
May 2005
May 12, 2005
Overheard inside an Anbar province bunker, Thursday, May 12
First militant: “About yesterday, Wahid…”* Second militant: “Please. I feel enough shame already –” First militant: “– No, please. Allow me to say my piece. Because after sleeping on it I have decided I agree with you. Life is so short, we should try to experience all of the pleasures Allah’s mercy makes possible—gustatory, spiritual, carnal… Second militant: “…So then you’re saying you agree with me about the anal beads?”
May 12, 2005
protein wisdom: the hummus recipe
3 (15 oz) cans garbonzo beans 1/5 cup lemon juice 2 1/2 cloves garlic 1/4 cup sesame oil 1 tbl minced flat leaf parsley 1/2 tsp Cumin pinch of salt pinch of ground black pepper pinch Cardamom Drain 2 cans garbonzo beans but save half the juice from the third can; pour all three cans of beans and remaining juice into a food processor. Add lemon juice, garlic (crushed), parsley,
May 12, 2005
BREAKING: Air France flight 332 from Paris to Boston is being diverted to Bangor, Maine
One of the passengers “with an Arabic-sounding name” positively matched a name on the no fly list. The plane should touch down around 2:45 EST. Developing…*
May 12, 2005
Is it okay to shout “fire” in a crowded firehouse? One that’s actually, y’know, on fire? Metaphorically speaking?
Not in Montgomery County, MD, it isn’t.* **** (thanks to Stephen Meyer)
May 11, 2005
9 Michael Jackson self-justifications for having slept in the same bed with former child star McCauley Culkin
“We were just good friends.” “We were just good friends, and he seemed so lonely.” “So very very lonely. And in need of some genuine human warmth…” “Besides, I’m a sick, twisted pedophile.” “Remember that scene in Home Alone where he screams after slapping on the after shave?—how absolutely adorable he looked? That played a role. Plus, I’m a sick, twisted pedophile.” “A very sick, very twisted pedophile.” “I really
May 11, 2005
Overheard inside an Anbar province bunker, Wednesday, May 11
First militant: “Sometimes I wonder if our struggle against the American infidels and their Zionist masters is worth fighting, Wahid.” Second militant: “Now is not the time for introspection, my brother. The Marines dogs have surrounded us—and their firepower is fierce and deadly. We must keep our wits or we shall surely perish.”* First militant: “But that’s my point. I don’t want to perish. I want to try double-cheese pizza
May 11, 2005
Bernard Goetz, redux
Like Bronson in Death Wish—only instead of hunting down and killing urban scum, this fed-up civilian tracked and beat a single fat teen. Which, I guess it’s not really all that much like Death Wish after all, come to think of it. (via Drudge)
May 11, 2005
Random Cat Blogger thought, Wednesday, May 11, 1:59 PM EST
Ooh! Maybe if I dressed him up in a little tiny wet suit and scuba mask. And flippers! Now that would be so frickin’ adorable…!
May 11, 2005
Odd, Ends
1. Sharp as a Marble turns one today! Go. Click and give him the gift of traffic. But cover yourself in chocolate icing first, if you can manage it. 2. Tim Worstall alerts me to a regular UK columnist and noted novelist who has, as the British say, “finally tossed in her chips for a barker, the poor twee git.”* 3. Much to my dismay, I have become addicted to